Hollywood has previously adapted two very different Ballard works: Steven Spielberg cast a young Christian Bale in 1987’s WWII memoir “Empire of the Sun,” while Thomas and director David Cronenberg brought Ballard’s fetishistic “Crash” to the big screen in 1996. “High-Rise” will begin shooting this summer in the U.K. Jeremy Thomas is producing through Recorded Picture Company. The satirical book takes place in a luxurious high-rise tower in 1970s England, where the increasingly isolated residents lose sense of social ethics and devolve into violent barbarism. Hiddleston will play a young doctor who is helplessly drawn into the madness of the tower’s tenants. The actor is set to star in the film being directed by Ben Wheatley (“Kill List”) from a screenplay by Amy Jump, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Just when it seems like he couldn’t climb any higher, “Thor” villain Tom Hiddleston is set to scale “High-Rise,” a thriller based on the 1975 novel by J.
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